It is success that colours all in life ; Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquir'd. Bentley's Miscellany - Page 235edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| Ontario - 1919 - 502 pages
...managers, but people who hold favors in the hollow of their hands are always .treated with great deference. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world fawns on success and power. The highest ambition of the young man in early days was to be a stage driver, not that the remuneration... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...proffered." — Logan Pearsall Smith "It is success that colors all in life: success makes fools admired, makes villains honest: all the proud virtue of this vaunting world fawns on success and power, how ever acquired." — James Thomson "Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you... | |
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